Day 37, Florence

What a great city, the indoor pleasures of this place are supposed to be the best in the world – big queues and small guests saw to it that we didn’t go in the Ufizzi – but the buildings are quite special too. New leather handbag for mummy, new wallet for daddy (he claims he now needs a much smaller one), new party shoes for Olivia and new jewel twin set for Eloise meant a happy train ride home.

It wasn’t a great day for the travelling elephants as Elvis was dropped and run-over and Ellie went missing – a panicked search of Florence was arranged and unbelievably an Italian lady stopped me and asked ‘you look for elephant?’ she obviously was used to seeing emergency searches for loved elephants! She had put it on a bollard and told me ‘it looked much loved’ (must be Italian for filthy bio-hazard).

 

St Tropez beckons tomorrow, for our final few days of chilling on the beach before we start our descent through France to normality!

 

FOD:

The gold doors shown are from the Bapistry (Michelangelo said they were so beautiful they could be the doors to paradise itself – guess things have moved on)  it is the oldest building in Florence, started in the 5^th century and is opposite the worlds 4^th largest cathedral (the biggest being in Milan).